Lakshmi Niwas Birla
{{Short description|Businessman from India (1909 – 1994)}}
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Lakshmi Niwas Birla (11 July 1909 – 29 August 1994) was one of the scions of Birla family and a noted Industrialist , philanthropist , writer and art connoisseur.
He was the eldest son of Ghanshyam Das Birla and his first wife Durgadevi. He was later adopted by Jugal Kishore Birla. He was married to Sushila Devi and had one son Sudarshan Kumar Birla from marriage born in 1934.{{cite book |last1=Kudaisya |first1=Medha M. |title=The Life and Times of G.D. Birla |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-564572-9 |pages=xvi,194, 414 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTNuAAAAMAAJ&q=Lakshmi+Niwas+Birla |access-date=11 September 2022 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Pandey |first1=Medha M. Kudaisya Edit by Sangam |title=Yugpurush Ghanshyamdas Birla |date=10 November 2021 |publisher=Vāṇī Prakāśana |isbn=978-93-5518-092-6 |pages=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIBdEAAAQBAJ&dq=Lakshmi+Niwas+Birla&pg=PA16 |language=hi}}
He served as president of Indian Chamber of Commerce in 1951{{cite web |title=Past Presidents |url=https://www.indianchamber.org/the-chamber/past-presidents/ |website=Indian Chamber of Commerce |access-date=27 August 2022 |archive-date=26 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826111728/https://www.indianchamber.org/the-chamber/past-presidents/ |url-status=dead }} and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry for year 1967.{{cite web |title=FICCI Past Presidents |url=https://ficci.in/about-Past-President.asp |website=ficci.in |access-date=11 September 2022 |archive-date=27 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927044004/https://ficci.in/about-Past-President.asp |url-status=dead }}
He wrote many books in English and Hindi and was also noted art connoisseur.{{cite web |last1=Congress |first1=The Library of |title=Birla, L. N. - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies {{!}} Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50009333.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=11 September 2022}}{{cite web |title=NLI AUT MultiLang - Full View of Record |url=http://uli.nli.org.il/F/NK3KNATYDX2BX1PCK6CT2IU36LAYDH8DSQF89QITXX89A1GRNI-23799?func=full-set-set&set_number=000397&set_entry=000001&format=999 |website=uli.nli.org.il |access-date=11 September 2022 |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407131621/http://uli.nli.org.il/F/NK3KNATYDX2BX1PCK6CT2IU36LAYDH8DSQF89QITXX89A1GRNI-23799?func=full-set-set&set_number=000397&set_entry=000001&format=999 |url-status=dead }}
He donated monies to build Hindu temples. The idols of Hindu temple at Durban had been bought out of his donations.{{cite book |title=Hindutva |date=1976 |pages=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=08MoAAAAYAAJ&q=Lakshmi+Niwas+Birla |access-date=11 September 2022 |language=en}}
He established Birla High School also called as Hindi High School in the year 1941.{{fact|date=April 2025}}